The focus of my Capstone Project will not be on the political viewpoint Pro Choice itself, but on how the expression of the belief can be freed from the stigmatism associated with it. The arguments (for and against) are becoming so overused that the debates are merely becoming more heated.

Personally, if I were to post on my own private Facebook page that I was Pro Choice, or that I had actually had an abortion, chaos would ensue. Most everyone knows the typical “Pro Life” assertions that would follow, so my project is an attempt at introducing an extremely emotionally charged topic in a fashion such that someone might be able to, in a way, remove him or herself from the viewpoint while at the same time expressing it.

I will first do this through an animated infographic created solely by myself, with audio narration utilizing the MS Word “Speak” function for presenting a Pro Choice argument. This removes the direct flood of argumentative thinking by shifting focus from the person presenting/sharing the video to the video itself, and doubly removes the content away from the personal through the narrator (a robotic voice) explaining she is only doing it because she is forced by the author.

Secondly, I will create a mash-up image file containing the most intriguing and heated arguments for and against abortion, including Creative Commons image sources displaying relevant content This allows a viewer to visualize and contextualize the same political topic in diverse ways.